Railways Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw announced an ‘in-depth’ investigation to identify the causes of the accident
The Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, promised “severe punishments” to those responsible for the serious accident between trains, which occurred on Friday, 2, which left 288 people dead and 850 injured. “The government will spare no efforts to treat the injured. This is a serious incident and instructions have been given to investigate this from all angles. The culprits will be severely punished,” Modi said at one of the hospitals in the region filled with victims of the collision. The accident happened around 7:20 pm (local time) in Balasore district, Odisha region, when a passenger train derailed and entered the adjacent track. Soon after, a second train collided with the first. A third freight train was also involved in the accident. Indian Railways Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said an “in-depth” investigation was launched to identify the causes of the accident, which is considered India’s biggest railway catastrophe in over 20 years. The Indian railway network is, with a length of 68 thousand kilometers, the fourth in the world, after the United States, Russia and China. It has 21,650 trains and 7,349 stations across the country, in addition to transporting around 23 million passengers daily.
Source: Jovempan
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